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In a shocking unanimous decision yesterday, Canada’s  Supreme Court overturned the long-standing countrywide ban on doctor assisted death.  The ruling applies to the whole country. Because the ruling did not, as far as we can glean from newspaper reports, require that the poison by which a person’s life would be ended must be self administered, […]

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This article, by Marilyn Golden, Senior Policy Analyst of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, appeared on CNN October 14, 2014. Golden writes: “At less than $300, assisted suicide is, to put it bluntly, the cheapest treatment for a terminal illness. This means that in places where assisted suicide is legal, coercion is not […]

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This is extremely good news.  Thanks to Second Thoughts Massachusetts for sharing it. http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/06/aid_in_dying_bill_lacking_enough_votes_pulled_from_nj_assembly_agenda.html#incart_river

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http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2014/03/physician-assisted-suicide-faces-continued-pushback-in-new-hampshire-and-vermont/#.UyI8coXJFz-

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It appears that Vermont is an outlier, not at all the first of a series of dice to topple, as the supporters of the assisted suicide/euthanasia “movement” had hoped.  The Maine House has defeated an assisted suicide bill by a wide margin. Here’s a link to Alex Schadenberg’s news piece. http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2013/05/maine-house-overwhelmingly-rejects.html

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